comm 1 M Th 9:00-10:30 am assignment

1.) Mark Twain whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens lived in Hartford for several years and wrote a classic American novel entitled Huckleberry Finn.


2.) Mark Twain's elaborate and elegant house on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm was near to Harriet Beecher Stowe's, the one who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.


3.) The windows and a balcony overlooking the large side porch in Mark Twain's home reminds the people today of  a steamboat because Twain piloted these vehicles on the Mississippi in his youth.


4.) Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone which was first used commercially in nearby New Haven but he never really liked this newfangled gadget because there was practically no one to talk to.


5.) Mark Twain loved industrial inventions just like the elaborate Paige typesetter but this machine was developed at the same time as the much simpler and less expensive Linotype so he lost a fortune investing in them.


6.)Mark Twain returned only once for the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner, after he left the house and Hartford soon after the death of his beloved daughter, Susy, due to spinal meningitis because he never felt the same about the house again.

"DO NATIONS EXPRESS THEMSELVES IN THEIR FOODS?

MAIN IDEA:

          Foods are one of the things that differentiate nations from one another.

POINTS:

          a.) In Middle East, people love to relax and eat while they enjoy each others company while in Europe and North America, the cities are saturated with fast-food outlets where people eat and run, reflecting their lifestyle -- a fast pace of life where, in order to succeed, time means everything

          b.)  In the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern lands, food and tradition go hand in hand. It takes several hours to make a meal in the Arab Middle East while in Europe and North America, preparation is effortless. One can buy the ingredients canned, frozen or prepared by someone.